Genus Uranotaenia. 
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Uranotaenia pallidocephala. Theobald (1908). 
Third Kept. Well. Res. Labs., 266 (1908), Theobald. 
Head clothed with pale grey scales, looking almost silvery in 
some lights. Thorax with a white scaled line extending from 
the middle of the scutellum to about half across the mesothorax; 
a white line on each side in front of the roots of the wings; pro- 
thoracic lobes white scaled. Abdomen brown unhanded, with 
apical lateral pale spots. Legs unbanded. White scales at the 
base of the first and fourth veins. 
9 . Head clothed with flat grey scales, showing silvery white 
in some lights, some at the back with a dull violet tint; upright 
forked scales black; antennae dark brown, basal segment testa¬ 
ceous on the outside ; palpi and proboscis brown ; clypeus brown. 
Thorax rich brown with narrow-curved bronzy scales; a 
white scaled line on each side in front of the wings and a line of 
white scales extending from the scutellum to the middle of the 
mesothorax; sides somewhat paler ; scutellum paler than meso¬ 
thorax with small flat dark scales, some white ones extending on 
to the mid lobe from the white line in front; four large black 
bristles to the mid lobe and one small central one ; metanotum 
deep brown; pleurae testaceous with traces of pale scales. 
Abdomen deep brown with apical lateral pale spots; venter 
ochreous. 
Legs brown, unbanded ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with brown scales except at the base of the first long 
Fig. 218. 
Wing of JJranotaenia pallidocephala. 9. Theobald. 
vein and the base of the fourth, where there are lines of flat 
white scales; large clavate scales on the apical portions of the 
second and fourth and on all the third; fork cells small and 
